NP? literary roots: Gilgamesh tomb believed found

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In a message dated 4/30/2003 10:05:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pynchonoid at yahoo.com writes:


> "We covered more than 100 hectares. We have found
> garden structures and field structures as described in
> the epic, and we found Babylonian houses." 
> 

cf:
       She looked down a slope, needing to squint from
       the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which
       had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop,
       from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the
       time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a
       battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered
       swirl of houses and streets from this high angle,
       sprang at her now with the same unexpected clarity
       as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less
       about radios than about Southern Californians, there
       were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense
       of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

That "both" would be printed circuits and housing developements, 
dude, not Southern Californians- in whom there is no such intention,
apparently?

respectfully
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